Communist Faction of Bavaria

The Communist Faction of Bavaria was a communist political party in Bavaria that was active from 1848 to 1933. The party, inspired by Karl Marx and The Communist Manifesto, was one of the actors behind the failed 1848 uprisings in Bavaria, and it would briefly seize power as the "Bavarian Soviet Republic" during the German Revolution of 1918-19. The party pushed for the creation of a socialist state in which the government planned the economy, protected the market from foreign meddling, removed religion from public life, extended full citizenship to ethnic minorities, and supported a strong military. The faction was banned by the Nazi Party in 1933, and many of its members were imprisoned or exiled.